Traceroute tools

Traditional traceoute

There are two traceroute projects:

• traceroute.sourceforge.net
  • Arch package: traceroute
• inet-traceroute
  • No Arch/AUR package

Other tools

nexttrace

• nexttrace
• visual route tracking CLI tool
• recent releases
• GUI: opentrace
  • cross-platform GUI wrapper for NextTrace

Install:

• AUR package: opentrace or opentrace-bin (outdated)
• No Debian package so far

Usage:

nexttrace -g en -4 nmmn.de

mtr

• mtr
  • Debian package: mtr-tiny (cli variant)
• mtr085
  • Fork of mtr v0.85, with more IP details (Country, AS)
• Traceroute mapper
  • Map your traceroutes easily

Deprecated

• pingnoo
  • Last release 2021
• asroute
  • Last release 2020
• dublin-traceroute
  • NAT-aware multipath tracerouting tool
  • AUR package: dublin-traceroute
  • Last release 2017

Traceroute destinations nearby

• nmmn.de